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A rose is placed on a monument inside the Athens Polytechnic school, a day before the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the military ruling junta in Athens, Greece. A mass march to the US embassy is planned to take place on November 17 marking the anniversary of a student revolt that helped topple the 1967-1974 military junta. Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters

Children wait Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic and former Brazilian tennis player Gustavo Kuertenat visit the Rocinha slum's new tennis court in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Djokovic is in Brazil to attend an exhibition game against Gustavo Kuerten on November 17. Sergio Moraes/Reuters

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is seen through a damaged car window after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in the southern city of Ashdod. Israel has started drafting 16,000 reserve troops, the military said, in a sign that violence could escalate further with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Amir Cohen/Reuters

A Palestinian child walks through a damaged mosque after an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. Hatem Moussa/AP

The Houses of Parliament are seen in late afternoon mist in central London, England. Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Workers put together the displays for the Sotheby's Latin American Art auction in New York City. Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-shean looks through a magnifier at his creation, a miniature resin figurine of a snake chasing an elephant, on top of a pencil in Taipei, Taiwan. The snake is about 0.55 cm (0.22 inches) long and 0.3 cm (0.12 inches) high while the elephant is about 0.1 cm (0.04 inches) long and 0.1 cm (0.04 inches) high. Pichi Chuang/Reuters

Anna Janko shows her hair which measures over 80 inches in length during an event to officially register it as a Ukrainian record for hair length in Kiev, Ukraine. Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters

A fire hydrant is seen buried in the sand in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Eric Thayer /Reuters

Actress Gina Lollobrigida (front) poses on the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival in Rome, Italy. Tony Gentile/Reuters

A woman walks past a plastic containers for sale, outside a colonial-era building in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ten years after the end of a devastating civil war, Sierra Leone will go to the polls to choose between incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma and opposition leader Julius Maada Bio. Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Members of Spain's team listen to a national anthem before their Davis Cup tennis tournament final match against the Czech Republic in Prague. David W Cerny/Reuters

Dusanka Pjevalica, a Serb refugee from Croatia, stands in her home in a refugee camp in Krnjaca near Belgrade, Serbia. The most senior Croatian military officer convicted of war crimes during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s was freed after an appeal. Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said the 'political decision' would open old wounds in the region. Marko Djurica/Reuters

McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain steers his car during the first free practice session for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix, at the Circuit of the Americas race track in Austin, Texas. Luca Bruno/AP

A boy has a haircut at an open air barber shop in a park in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Andrew Biraj/Reuters

A woman sews the edges of the newly made U.S flags at a shop in Yangon, Myanmar. President Barack Obama leaves on Saturday for a trip to Asia that will include a historic stop in Myanmar. Minzayar/Reuters

Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain sits in his car during the first practice session of the US F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Mike Stone/Reuters

Yuanhui Fu of China swims on her way to winning the silver medal during the women's 100-meter backstroke final at the 9th Asian Swimming Championships, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Hassan Ammar/AP

Amy Neukom works to remove sand from the home of her parents that had been deposited there by the storm surge of Superstorm Sandy in the town of Mantoloking, New Jersey. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

War veterans celebrate during the live broadcast from the International War Crimes Tribunal, on Zagreb's main square in Zagreb, Croatia. Appeals judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have overturned the convictions of two Croat generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz. Nikola Solic/AP

President Barack Obama reaches to shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington during a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss the deficit and economy. Carolyn Kaster/AP

People light candles and pray at the shrine in central Phnom Penh, Cambodia. US president Barack Obama will be among head of states visiting Cambodia's capital as the country hosts the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and East Asia summits. Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Assistant machinist Alexei Simernin walks near a rotary dredge on the coal face of the Borodinsky opencast colliery, near the Siberian town of Borodino, November 15, 2012. The Borodinsky colliery is the biggest opencast coal mine in Russia, 7 km (4 miles) long and 100 meters (328 feet) deep, producing about 20 million tons of coal a year. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Female Tour De Takong (Stiletto Race) participants run along the 500 m stretch of Shoe Avenue in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines. The race, an annual event, requires participants to wear high heels that measure a minimum of 3 inches and a 1.5 centimeters tip diameter. Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

An Afghan man poses for a picture for his friend among pigeons outside a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan. Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel. Ariel Schalit/AP